The shortlists for
this year's Age Book of the Year awards were announced
over the weekend. The winners of the annual awards will be
announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival, for the categories of
fiction, non-fiction, poetry and the overall winner of Book of the
Year. Each category carries with it a $10,000 prize.
Here are the 2011 shortlists. Congratulations to all the authors and publishers.
Fiction
- Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris
- The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick Holland
- Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
- Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
- Bereft by Chris Womersley
Non-Fiction
- Sydney by Delia Falconer
- A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancoc by Jim Davidson
- When It Rains by Maggie MacKellar
- When Horse Became Saw by Athony Macris
- The Many Worlds of R H Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas
Poetry
- Sly Mongoose by Ken Bolton
- Supermodernprayerbook by Susan Bradley Smith
- This Floating World by Libby Hart
- Porch Music by Cameron Lowe
- Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter
